The regional geology of Serbia describes the geologic structure and history inside the borders of Serbia.
Serbia is in recent geologic time a part of the Eurasian Plate, but the bedrock lithologies are witness to a diverse geologic history.[1] In a tectonic sense, Serbia is part of an orogenic system that is composed of the Alpine, Carpathian, and Dinaride orogenic belts.[2][3] Its territory can be divided into five geotectonic units of differing genesis:[4][5]
- Pannonian Plain, occupying the northern part of the country (Vojvodina province)
- Dinaric Alps occupy western part of Central Serbia, stretching in general northwest-southeast direction
- Vardar Zone is a belt east of the Dinaric alps, continuing into central North Macedonia. It consists of three parts: Srem, Jadar and Kopaonik blocks, separated by ophiolitics fractures.
- Serbian-Macedonian Massif is a belt stretching in north-south direction along the Great and South Morava valleys, into western North Macedonia and northern Greece (north of Chalkidiki peninsula).
- Carpatho-Balkan Arc covers Eastern Serbia, in the shape of an arc. Its northern part, Serbian Carpathians is an extension of Carpathian Range, and it joins the western parts of Balkan Mountains, whose main massif is in Bulgaria.
- ^ "Tectonic Plates: Divergent, Convergent, and Transform Boundaries" (PDF) (Map). Tectonics Observatory. California Institute of Technology. April 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ Schmid, Stefan M.; Daniel Bernoulli; Bernhard Fügenschuh; Liviu Matenco; Senecio Schefer; Ralf Schuster; Matthias Tischler; Kamil Ustaszewski (2008). "The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units" (PDF). Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 101 (1): 139–183. doi:10.1007/s00015-008-1247-3. S2CID 55108896.
- ^ Milena Zlokolica-Mandic. "Structural-Tectonic Elements as a Factor in Cave Development". Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
- ^ Mica Martinovic; Mihailo Milivojevic (25 April 2010). "Serbia Country Update" (PDF). Proceedings of World Geothermal Congress 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011.
- ^ Eldridge M. Moores; Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge (1997). Encyclopedia of European and Asian regional geology. Springer. pp. 786–789. ISBN 978-0-412-74040-4.